Jewish cemetery (Winnweiler)

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Jewish cemetery in Winnweiler
Tahara house

The Winnweiler Jewish Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Winnweiler in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . As an ensemble, it is a protected cultural monument . The cemetery is located on Schulstrasse, not far from the town exit towards Wingertsweilerhof. 346 tombstones have been preserved.

history

The information about when the cemetery was established vary and contradict each other: “before 1721”, probably 1725. Burials were made from the first third of the 18th century to the first third of the 20th century and then again in 1963.

The Tahara House was built in 1856. It is the only remaining unchanged Jewish cult building in the North Palatinate, which has never been used for any other purpose.

The cemetery was expanded around 1880. In the 19th century, the association cemetery, which is divided into an older (18th / 19th century) and a newer part (20th century), also served the Jews from Alsenbrück , Enkenbach , Gonbach , Hochspeyer , Imsbach , Kaiserslautern , Lohnsfeld , Mehlingen , Münchweiler , Otterberg and Sembach .

The cemetery was partially destroyed during the National Socialist era . After the end of the war it could be restored. In 1987 the cemetery was desecrated.

Web links

Commons : Jewish Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Informational directory of cultural monuments - Donnersbergkreis. (pdf) In: edoweb-rlp.de. P. 39 , accessed on January 31, 2016 .
  2. ^ Winnweiler Jewish cemetery at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
  3. ^ List of cultural monuments in Winnweiler
  4. ↑ a b Museum Winnweiler: European Day of Jewish Culture , Verbandsgemeinde Winnweiler , 25 August 2015
  5. ↑ Werner Rasche: From the Jews in Winnweiler to: To the main focus of our museum "Judaism" , Museum Winnweiler
  6. ↑ Ulrich Knufinke: Buildings of Jewish cemeteries in Germany (= series of publications by the Bet-Tfila Research Center for Jewish Architecture in Europe. 3). Imhof, Petersberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-206-2 , p. 443, (also: Braunschweig, Technische Universität, dissertation, 2005).

Coordinates: 49 ° 34 ′ 6.3 "  N , 7 ° 50 ′ 38.7"  E